Catch and Cook Carp - How to cook carp - carp fishing tips & carp recipe.

hey luke here with cat2carp.com and today we're catching and cooking carp [Music] hey everyone welcome to another episode of catfishing carpet today we are catching and cooking common carp oh yeah i know a lot of you people have been excited to see this here it is here in the u.s when people find out i'm into carp fishing when the first questions i get is do you eat the carp and the short answer is is no i'm mostly a catch-and-release fisherman so i only keep and eat fish a couple times a year and i've never eaten a common carp and most the people i know have never eaten one either here in the u.s most people believe common carp aren't an edible fish or that it's not a good tasting fish and that's why a lot of people here consider carpet trash fish and what most americans are surprised to find out is that carp are the most popular freshwater game fish in the world and it seems like almost every culture except for the us likes to likes to fish for it's kind of like soccer everyone's into it but us so this video i'm going to show you how to catch carp then i'm going to clean it and i've got a friend who's cooked mini carp because he's going to come in and show us some awesome recipes so it's going to be a fun video all right first things first let's get a rod baited and out in the water to do that i'm using what's called a pack bait this is a ball of bread crumb sweet corn and a strawberry jello flavor and i'm mushing it into a ball and putting it on top of what's called a method lead and i'm using a fake piece of corn and i'm slapping that bad boy all into a ball and we're gonna cast it out [Music] one of the biggest reasons why americans have trouble catching carp is they don't understand that carp just eat different things than bass and bluegill and crappie and all the other things we fish for regularly carp are omnivores and they'll eat just about anything but they they like to forage as opposed to hunt this isn't always true but generally speaking and so a carp will eat little insects and larvaes they'll eat clams and snails but some baits that generally work really well across the board are things like corn corn's a great classic carpet bread is another one there's also a commercially made bait called a boilie it's a round ball of boiled dough that they sell in a bag that's specifically designed for carp fishing they come in every flavor scent and size that you can imagine so you can see it's early in the morning it's about six in the morning last night before i went to bed i came here and threw out about 10 pounds of boiled feed corn and boiled pigeon feed and threw it right on top of the spots that i was going to be fishing and spread it out really good doing that consistently chumming a spot can turn a mediocre fishing hole into an amazing fishing spot so this right here is a bite alarm and you can see it's beeps whenever something touches the line it's very very sensitive and so you get these little beeps often before you get a bite a real bite and it gives you a warning that something's about to happen [Music] oh we got one got one oh i got a double oh he popped out real quick he must have just been barely hooked guys this is why i carved it look at this what an incredibly feisty fish i've had my hook in the water for two minutes and i've already had two fish on um and these fish are averaging 12 pounds here and this is really typical i'll come in here for an hour or two before work and typically catch three to four fish when carbs get really crazy if you cover their eyes gently with your hands they'll calm down kind of like a canary you know look at this this is a slightly smaller than average carp for this area um what a beautiful fish hard fighting fish just an absolute ton of fun but this one is a perfect eating size so this long net right here is called a keep net it's designed to keep your fish alive kind of like a live well and just put the fish in there and they have plenty of room to swim this thing's about 10 feet long goes off into the water and fit a lot of carp in there if you're into bank fishing and you want to keep your bait alive or your fish alive this thing's awesome got it off of ebay for like 20 bucks with this much action i'm gonna throw some more chum out here but i'm gonna try not to spread it out too much so if you're new to my channel and new to car fishing you may be asking yourself what's all this gary's using you know what are those bite alarms what's that rig he's using how do you make that bait um i get these questions all the time so i've repeated it like a billion times in my videos for the sake of my subscribers i'm not gonna go over all my gear again however i'm to put links in the descriptions to all the different things i'm using and where i bought them so check that out also i have an entire playlist of just videos that explain how to catch carp all that's going to be in the description so check that out i put that carp in the keep net about a minute ago and i'm already getting bites on my my rod there's just they're thick in here hold on one of the common myths here in the us is that carp are invasive and destructive neither one is exactly right carp aren't invasive anymore they're what's called naturalized an invasive fish is one that's taking over the ecosystem a naturalized fish is a foreign fish that's reached a balance with the environment common carp in most states are listed as naturalized species not invasive and a lot of people think these fish are destructive to the environment the truth is they're no more destructive than a bass or a catfish each of them play their own role in the ecosystem and they both give life and take it all right let's get them over here we can land them look at that chunky fish that's a big one all right isn't that a gorgeous fish look at this portly guy this is a big gorgeous trophy carp and i'm not gonna eat this guy it's more food than i could ever manage without having tons and tons of leftovers so i'm gonna put him back and let somebody else enjoy catching him all right i'll catch you another day [Music] maybe if you notice this carb looks different than the others it's because it's a mirror carb it's very rare in this area less than one percent of the carb are mirror carb there's something else though that makes this car really special this is the third time i've caught it i've caught this carp the first time in 2013 in 2014 and then today in 2018 and i've caught it in this same spot this time of year every single time that's the beauty of catch and release you get to enjoy the same fish again and again well before i butcher this fish i've got to kill it first and there's two ways i generally like to do that either a i smack the fish on the head really hard or you bleed out the gills and bleeding out actually makes the meat taste better and it's less traumatic to the fish so they freak out a little bit less so what i did is i bunked him over the head to kind of knock him out and i took out his gills and put him face down in the bucket of water and i'm just letting him bleed out get all the blood out of him make the meat taste better you can see it's a pretty pretty calm way to go he's uh just going to sleep first things first we got to take the scales off this thing [Music] there's some chunky scales things are so well armored all right got the scales off them let's wash them up now i've heard that carp have a ton of bones so i'm gonna just fillet this thing and then we're gonna see what the bone situation looks like and go from there i'm sort of bone right there something hard right there is that a rib that's a rib man that's a beefy rib look at those ribs you're not cutting through those it's not like a salmon where you can just cut them through and remove them oh look at that that is a strong rib cage well that is not the prettiest fillet ever you know people told me carp had all sorts of bones and that's why you couldn't eat them but i mean the only bones i'm feeling is a set of y bones right here that end from like here to there just like a salmon or trout could have done a better job filleting him though come down the back and angle the knife a little bit more i think there's a lot of boneless white back meat that i missed out on okay a little bit better only a few y bones right in there as the great harry hill once said i'll save this for later well look at these fillets these actually look pretty decent got a bit of pink to them well i've got the fillets all ready for cooking and i took the carcass and butchered that up and i'm going to be using that for catfish bait as well so if you want to see a video about fishing for catfish with carp as bait check out a link in the description as soon as i post that video i'll put the link there you know carp were introduced to this country by people who love to eat them that they were such a popular fish to eat the people brought them all the way across the atlantic to introduce here and that's why they've spread all over the united states because everywhere the pioneers went there was somebody who wished they had a good old carp to eat and they'd introduce them put my catfish bait in the freezer and i'm gonna go put the fillets in the refrigerator we're gonna make these for dinner tonight all right everybody we've got our fish we're here at the house now we're gonna cook it up but i am not a carp cooking expert i've actually never eaten a cart before and i've never cooked one before so i have brought in an expert here jay and my boy is going to hook us up with a bangladeshi carp recipe right yes sir you never had a carb before i've never filleted a car or cut open a car just gonna dump them in here some old bay seasoning this one is uh it has a little bit of uh chili powder just like good amount you know that's that's [Music] i actually know what the 2020 is because of uh the salt makes the onion okay don't play don't play don't worry you want to stand by blah blah and see bubba yeah yeah you're not burning the onion two that's good that's good all right oh just put it on the element because i'm awesome that way yeah see that's good okay we're gonna eat one you wanna you wanna show the ingredients on it just a little bit yeah [Music] oh oh my hair yeah get your hair honey butter that goes your garlic powder cumin powder curry powder turmeric garam masala cumin paprika yeah so you have to be gentle when you're mixing them there we go it's covered yeah that looks that looks really good man that smells good too it's not fishy smelly at all there's zero fish smell here we go that looks good [Music] sir all right when you're eating bangladeshi food forks are for suckers right oh okay i'll get you one that's good actually what do you think of the smell though like is there any smell you barely can no i can't i can't i can't detect any fish you smell is it spicy like it is super spicy no no no this ain't spicy at all this is this is this is real this is american bio oh look look at that i've never seen bones like that that's cool so people tell me that carp have all sorts of bones and when i played the carp i only found like a few bones so i was kind of surprised at that but when i cooked it and i'm eating the meat i found a lot more bones and this is what it is this part sticks out of the meat so it looks like just one bone but if you break off the bottom then you get all these little bones but when you eat it this way it just the meat falls apart and you can just pull the whole bone out in one big big chunk and so it's not a big deal but uh that's that's what the carp bones you're hearing so much about look like if carp bones were just like this then it would pretty much be the same as a salmon so i mean you can't go wait wait a zig you can't really talk it's good not a lot of flavor to it is there yeah yeah it's just it's just like a lot of white meat fish yeah i've heard so many people talk bad about it i expected it to taste muddy or fishy or something they're stinky and it really i mean you can't smell the house doesn't smell like fish the curry doesn't smell like fish it doesn't taste like fish although jay your curry is really good that's the best yeah it is a really good curry guys this curry was absolutely delicious man jay you you rocked it this is this is really good but the carb wasn't stinky it didn't taste like mud um it was just kind of like a white meat fish yeah i mean it's you know we could have thrown tilapia in here i don't know if i would have known the difference know funny thing is she doesn't eat fish at all she'll run away but here it is you guys see it yeah she is eating it so guys i would definitely eat carp again in a heartbeat i don't see anything wrong with this but this curry is freaking awesome though i mean it's really good yeah but i had like three servings of that you know so guys if you enjoyed this video we have an entire playlist with catch and cook videos uh we've got a bunch of them and so go ahead and check that out put a link in the description and if you want to see more great videos from the catfish and carp youtube channel don't forget to like subscribe we put out new videos every week thanks for watching guys

Channel: Catfish and Carp

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Id: e7_x9178hT4

Length: 17min 40sec (1060 seconds)

Published: Sat May 26 2018

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[u/DGBD]

They're invasive in many areas, so eating them can be both tasty and beneficial to your local pond!